Anarchic Terrorism

[Koora-Tuunshe]

The causes and their motives.

 

We see it today, the impacts of anarchic terrorism in Somalia.

 

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ANARCHIC TERRORISM

 

Dr. Gani Yoroms

 

This type of terrorism is pursued by those who are psychologically estranged from society. They believe that the world can be reconstructed according to a religious worldview or political ideology with which they have indoctrinated their members. In this case, religion, more than politics, is the opiate that drugs the people into a world of fantasy and inspires anarchistic acts of terror. The perpetrators of this type of terrorism may have high intelligence quotients and be technically skilful, but they lack moral intelligence. This deficiency creates the unbalanced thinking that allows them to instil fear and intimidation into society, to steer the weak into being empathetic to their cause, and to compel society to follow their course of action. It gives the weak an opportunity to become recruits or agitators that put pressure on governments to meet the demands of the terrorists, that is, if the society were to be released from the tension and fears that disproportionate terrorists generate. They use their knowledge and skills to learn war strategy and use it to enforce a technology of terror.

 

Because they are not fighting a war they can win, they target their primary enemies by using shock values. Such attacks create intimidation, harassment and help sustain fear in the psyche of the general public.(how many TFG civil service officials resigned out of ths fear) Even the destruction of public property serves as a devastating measure to weaken their enemy. Prominent among shock value targets are bus and rail stations, schools and offices, because in

such places the public sense of security is easily disrupted or diffused. This forces a change of behaviour from both the primary and secondary targets to be predisposed towards conceding to their demands.

 

Disproportionate or anarchic terror uses aggression that is not generally accepted by international norms. This is because everything about a terrorist is absorbed by a single exclusivist interest, single thoughts and single passion to carry out a reign of terror.9

 

Anarchism is criminalised because it is fashioned on a hate system, and attacks non-combatants and innocent bystanders, destroys public facilities and endangers international peace and security. It nurtures this hate system in the minds of innocent and ignorant people in the society. When the state mismanages its information system, innocent and ignorant people in the society turn their sympathies towards terrorists.

 

Even though it may be difficult for the terrorists to achieve their aim, because they do not have specific environmentally driven values (like creating a state that is acceptable to the Internatinal Structure) to establish an end state, they are often satisfied with the sympathy they draw from the society. In spite of this, states in the international system are easing themselves out of the register of the axis of evil. It would therefore be diffi cult to see any state providing an enabling environment for disproportionate

 

terrorists. However, once terror has been inflicted on the society, anarchists or disproportionate terrorists have achieved some aims,

such as:

 

Creating awareness of their views among the people; they

become recognised, for good or bad. They are then in an

advantageous position because their enemy?is forced to face the contradiction they have created and is put on the offensive.

 

Creating suspicion and building a hate system between clashing interests and values; pluralism and exclusivism.

 

Shrinking the space of globalisation and global investment across the world.

Putting society under siege and making minimal scholarship and intellectual discourse difficult to achieve.

 

When a religion or a philosophy denies the cause of intellectual discourse, it is difficult to engage in it for fear not only of being misrepresented, but also of some sort of fatwa that might be declared.

 

Dr Gani Yoroms is currently a senior research fellow and director of the Department of Defence and Security Studies of the African Centre for Strategic Research and Training at the National War College

[Socod_badne]

Originally posted by Koora-Tuunshe:

In this case,

religion, more than politics, is the opiate that drugs the people into a world of fantasy and inspires anarchistic acts of terror.

I wholeheartedly agree. George W. Bush said he felt God was speaking through him in the lead up to Iraq invasion and he heard God's voices telling him to attack Iraq. Which he did, killing hundreds of thousands.

 

What do you think should be done to religious fanatics?

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

to put yourself on the same boat as Bush does not help you.

[Koora-Tuunshe]

^Ilaah baa u maqan Somalia. They disseminate Fitnah.

[Fabregas]

Bal sheega what Diinta Islamka says about Muslims who bring foreign(non Muslims) to invade and occupy a Muslim nation?

[Jacaylbaro]

And they will be silent till the end ...........